To Play Without Passion Is Inexcusable!

Men Are Not Only Together When They Are With Each Other; Even The Distant And The Dead Live With Us.

The World Is A King, And Like A King, Desires Flattery In Return For Favor; But True Art Is Selfish And Perverse — It Will Not Submit To The Mold Of Flattery.

Music Is Mediator Between Spiritual And Sensual Life.

Mistakes - Mistakes - You Yourself Are A Unique Mistake!

Oh You Men Who Think Or Say That I Am Malevolent, Stubborn, Or Misanthropic, How Greatly Do You Wrong Me. You Do Not Know The Secret Cause Which Makes Me Seem That Way To You. Oh How Harshly Was I Flung Back By The Doubly Sad Experience Of My Bad Hearing.